Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

What went wrong in my life w/r/t R&B was that I was raised in the backwoods.

grand pronouncements about how the kind of music you like really means that much about who you are as a person are barfffff

― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They do say something a little bit sad about the adult making them, sort of like over-obsessiveness with a sports team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eU2CG3WN8&ob=av2e

whoever doesn't love this is a fucking scoundrel

lol @ n/a

whoever doesn't love this is a fucking scoundrel

I don't *feel* like a scoundrel....

But it would be hard to find music I hate more.

scoundrel is such a good word

wastrel is good too
maybe better

rapscallion

I grew up in the boonies (different boonies, granted) too and still enjoy some R&B. Not anything made in the last 15 years, though.

http://www.vesivus.com/swminis/pics/BH_Card_Han_Solo__Scoundrel_07.jpg

ooh wait KNAVE

What went wrong in my life w/r/t R&B was that I was raised in the backwoods.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:42 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was it on a farm in alabama?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LQ4_MhDu4

I grew up in the boonies (different boonies, granted) too and still enjoy some R&B. Not anything made in the last 15 years, though.

"No Diggity" was made in the last 15 years, as were "Dance With Me" and "Peaches and Cream".

I grew up along the Canadian border in Minnesota and Montana. There was no rhythm up there b/c it froze up and got rusty from the salt.

haha

Patches was R&B's riposte to Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.

I did once watch an "Unsolved Mysteries" episode set there. I think it was the one about a whole town that had never heard R&B.

I grew up along the Canadian border in Minnesota and Montana. There was no rhythm up there b/c it froze up and got rusty from the salt.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

word? what town?

How are they going to distinguish real 4G when it becomes available?

― everything else is secondary (Lee626)

4RealG

― Ned Raggett

"No Diggity" was made in the last 15 years, as were "Dance With Me" and "Peaches and Cream".

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:54 PM (2 minutes ago)

Oops, you're right. 2001-ish is about my cut off date. By the time Amerie's "1 Thing" had come out my sisters' and my taste in music were no longer identical.

i definitely had a subtle-but-total change of hearing on modern r&b since i was a teenager, even 20-sth. i can't even explain when or why it happened tbh. at the time stuff like boyz II men and new jack (in a small town high school) seemed like boring fake thin sounding crap for idiots and women ("nothing to me about my life" indeed). now i'm less pent up about shit and i could hear pop r&b hits from any era all day and be totally happy.

reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade probably helped a lot. for an unfamiliar and disliked genre sometimes you have to read and think your way into it first. and then it all becomes recontextualized and your ear for it changes. certainly songs like 'pony' really stuck out even at the time

probably not the right thread for this tho

why am I the only person who like R&B who hates "Pony"

maybe it's because you're a classically-trained musician ... or maybe you're not the only one?

now i'm less pent up about shit and i could hear pop r&b hits from any era all day and be totally happy

reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade probably helped a lot

what i dislike about the pro-r&b faction on ILM is the assumption that you're either "pent up" or unfamiliar w/ poptimist criticism if you don't like r&b

i mean, i like "pony" and "1 thing" and usher and timberlake as much as the next person (which is to say i could blast it 10 times in a row no problem) but fuck me if that means i need to get deep in the intricacies of the dream or janelle monae or whatever

The intricacies of Janelle Monae?

ill dude

well hold on now, Janelle is superdope

The-Dream is super overrated tho

The "unbookmark the excelsior thread" days are arriving ahead of schedule lately.

word? what town?

In MN we lived in Deer River ("Canadian border" was an exaggeration, tbh) which is west of Duluth somewhere. In MT we lived near a place called Condon, which is 90 miles north of Missoula and 70 south of Kalispell.

i wasn't trying to be prescriptive there. i was absolutely pent-up and not-even-subliminally angry about music as a younger dude! i had a pretty narrow range of what musical expression and para-musical heroism was supposed to be.

xp oh i'm sorry eric were you hoping to find a catalog of steady lols herein

Ooh I like that song "Patches" up above. I could dance to it, which is kinda my litmus, if only it didn't have those talking slow-downs.

thanks to iTunes buyers the words "Janelle Monae and fun" can be written in the same sentence

also can i say that reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade, particularly on ILM, has actually kind of turned me off pop music

I heard "Pony" for the first time in 2009 so I haven't always loved it.

WOW
WOW WOW WOW
WOW WOW WOW

my impression of "pony"

my first clear memory of pony was hearing it at a college dance night and some girl yelling "IT SOUNDS LIKE PUKING!!!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AgrxDxc6LEg/S1WnlG1L5ZI/AAAAAAAAADA/ta1ckNUo2nw/s320/1998%E2%80%9399.jpg

#PONY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_XDZwiv1a8

i used to post as luna, how is everyone

― the late great, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxprn1h0Nh1qdlh1io1_400.gif

― pplains, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

can we make this the rolling bob lefsetz thread?

― goole, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[...]

xpost We can't make this the Lefsetz thread, because back in the day the thread ,was all about the connection. I remember the first time I read the Rolling Doom thread, back in my dorm room at school. My girlfriend had just dumped me - but this thread spoke my language. It was honest and true. There was no bullshit about bonus posts, no tacky marketing. But once you read the thread you were hooked. That's where today's ILXers have gone worng. They've forgotten about the connection. They think it's all about the sell. They think some snide asides about some give-a-shit laptop act are enough to get the people on their side. They think all you have to do is post. They're wrong. You gotta post. You gotta hope the post makes a connection, with the kids in their dorm rooms. You gotta work that post. You gotta post in every forum from here to Helena, Montana. Then - and only then - can you say you've made this the official Lefsetz thread.

― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that dog is a dick but the man is worse

actually thats not the dog i thought it was sorry

The Billboard R&B charts from the '60s and '70s are a treasure trove of gems that have largely and unjustly been forgotten by the public at large. Lots of good stuff since then but sooo much smaller a percentage of high-quality material in the last decade or so.

loooooooool @ that lefsetz post

are ghosts real

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:14 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they live in the hearts of the innocent

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:19 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is innocence

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:26 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

innocence is an iMac

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:29 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg i'm on one right now

― markers, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:31 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're under arrest, markers

god that hair is such a relief
― surm, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:49 PM (1 hour ago)

i feel like i can breathe again
― surm, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:50 PM (1 hour ago)

re: lindsey lohan, of course

pvmi <3

<3

RE: Metal Gear Solid 2

at the end of 2 many years ago during the 45 minute cutscene i just rested the dual shock on my balls and read a magazine. nice way to spend an afternoon.
― adam, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:28 PM